Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-05
CHOW TO GET RICH"
Industry, Economy, Fortunately and a
Capacity to Take Things Easy.
lowell Times


Capacity to Take Things Easy.
Lowell Times.
It seems to US that the most remark
able features Of the symposium on how to
get rich, marshaled by the Boston Herald
N it's Sunday edition, has as yet escaped
notice, 1t is that not one OF the celebri-
ties whose recipes for riches are recorded
advises young men to follow his own foot
sleeps in the professional path which he
has SO successfully pursued.
Barnum's "road to wealth" is not 70
start & circus, out to keep expenditure
within income, the identical theory which
MicawDer so lucidly eXpouEded and so
inadequa1ely practiced. Butler does not
recommend the adoption of the bar as =
profession, but the acquisition OF real
estate as sn amateur pursuit. Faxonyhas
| not word TO say about any one Of the
| multifari0us commercial occupations in
which ne has atvaIiOus times engaged, but
recommends young men TO "oegin by be
| ing truthful and just" on accomplish
ment stin 10 the remote future OF his own
| career. Eraslus Wiman is silent shout
] printing and commercial agencies, but
eXpendS his loQuacitv on 2 mass of mega
! tions, !n.iuu--- tAo avoidance of speculs-
! lion and Of professional life. Russell
! Sage's sententiOus advice is 'tSave your
money!" but the secret Of making money
IN the first instance be wisely keeps TO
! himself. Rev james De Normandlf
would not have the ministry selected as
the means Of getting On, though his ele-
gan mansion and prosperous surround
| ings th " that ne has no reason to find
| fault with mat avenue to wealth, but he
opines th4 other people may possibly
think the experiment urged by sn erni-
nent authority WORTH trying, "Seil that
thou hast and give 10 the poor, and thou
shalt ha'.e treasure in heaven"
The Whole symposium, beginning with
the circus and ending ct the cloister, is g
mass OF "words, words, words" as val
ueiess for any practical purpose as the
ADMINISTRATIONS Of q Chinese praying
| machine. The fact is that the capacity
for acquiring wealth is an uncommuni
cable intuition, md that it is as true of thi
rich man as of the poCr that he is "b0rn
not made" Beside industry and ecOno-
my, 8 p9rtinacity that never tires and ,
| nIeanbess that will take no affr1nt, tnj
| esplrant for money must possess, above
al and in ell and through all, the cspaci
ty to take thin gs easy, which is the s. ere
OF success in every walk of life, and
large minded power OF speculation
without which, Erastus Wimen TO TIL
contrary notwithstanding, no youth eve
VET exchanged the corner grocery for tht
Fifth avenue mansion.
There are two qualities which invariabl,
mark the msn who is bound 10 get on
qualities which may be developed, bu
are not to be acquired at second hand
qualities which no one can thoroughly ap
preciate but the posscss0r, and which
not even he is always conscious of
J "There is that gc8ttereth and yet IN
creaseth", is the conundrum Of tn,
money making man. A hoppY-eo
J lucky disposition in the truest and bes
sense is both happy and lucky. TIL
same distinction which we have habit
ually insisted on as discriminating th
} statesman from the politicisn marks TIT
difference between the ordinary worker
J satisfied with to-dav's wage and por
J ton fer tomorrow, and the msn who's
touch turns everything to gold.